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But I forced myself to dance.
To smile.
To laugh.
“You look good,” Randa teased me, swiveling her hips while some gorgeous stranger held her close. Her eyes were bright, and her face was flushed. And despite my own emotions, I was chest-achingly glad she was having fun.
“So do you,” I rolled my hips too, but halted when a pair of hands landed on my waist.
They were the wrong size.
Not big enough.
Nowhere near hot enough.
And the body that stepped up behind me definitely wasn’t the one I wanted there.
“Hey,” the guy called over my shoulder. “You want to dance?”
Randa gave me a thumbs-up as her date spun her away from me.
Vi was back at the bar, arguing with Eli about something. They always seemed ready to rip each other’s heads off.
I was on my own.
My stomach clenched at the idea of having my body pressed against someone other than August.
But before I could say no, the guy had already started moving my hips himself, grinding my ass against him.
The feeling was so wrong, my stomach literally flipped.
I ripped his hands off me and rushed across the room as my belly churned.
My knees hit the cold tile, and my chin hit the icy porcelain as everything in my stomach came back up.
I vomited again, and again. The feeling of nausea remained, as if every part of me was in denial that I no longer belonged to the blond dragon I wanted.
The one I was starting to think I loved.
A few tears leaked down my cheeks as I finally sat back on my heels.
What was I doing with myself?
I was in a nightclub when I wanted to be hiding away.
I was trying to have fun for my friends’ sake, when I needed to give myself time to grieve.
My shaking hand wiped across my clammy forehead.
I needed to go home.
Back to our cabin.
It would feel empty without August, but it was the closest I could get without having him there.
My body worked on auto-drive as I rinsed my face and cleaned my mouth. As I said goodbye to my friends, and asked Eli to take me back to the apartment.
As I packed up the small bag of my things.
